Word: plasticize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish there were some way to force President Nixon to spend a few days at the overseas replacement station in Oakland, where he would have to watch dead Americans from Viet Nam in plastic bags being unloaded from plane after plane, day after day, week after week after week. Maybe he would then get the true picture and realize that he could stop the suffering with the stroke of a pen. Perhaps then this realization would prompt him to do what he should have done long ago: to bring all the troops home now, STEPHEN M. SNOW Salt Lake City...
...afternoon in Manhattan, and the boys could hardly wait to try out their new toy rockets. Accompanied by a governess and a Secret Service man, John-John Kennedy, 8, and a playmate found an appropriate site in Central Park. While strollers stopped to stare, the boys successfully launched the plastic missiles, which, with the aid of a propellant of vinegar mixed with baking soda, rose about twelve feet into the air. John-John was so delighted by the performance that he blurted: "Now I have my own little Cape Kennedy...
...luxury for the rich but available to everyone (or almost everyone). Since Vasarely's paintings fetch upward of $16,000, the obvious way to cut costs was to mass-produce the medium and let the purchaser do the work. Once he hit upon the idea of using movable plastic units, Vasarely applied the fundamental idiom of his paintings-geometry and color. All pieces are snugly interlocking circles and squares and come in 19 carefully chosen, generally compatible shades. A small suction cup is provided for easy manipulation...
...Christmas gift of 1969." The day it went on sale at Bloomingdale's in Manhattan last week, lines formed as if something were being given away. Not quite. The bulky box labeled Vasarely Planetary Folklore Participation No. 1 costs $500. For that, the customer receives 390 colored, magnetized plastic pieces to be arranged at will within a 20-in. by 20-in. frame -plus the added attraction of hanging a work of art he can claim, truthfully enough, to have put together himself...
Moon dust, scaled in plastic bottles, has arrived at Harvard from NASA's Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston...